Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:38:29 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: George Cox <gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation Message-ID: <20000111193829.A409@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <20000111073939.A31293@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@klemm.gtn.com on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:39:40AM %2B0100 References: <20000110165543.A5720@extremis.demon.co.uk> <20000111073939.A31293@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:39:40AM +0100, Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:55:43PM +0000, George Cox wrote: > > G'day, > > > > While compiling a kernel today, I noticed that the '-pipe' option to gcc > > was not being used. Is there any reason for this? > > I think this is the (historical) default, so that people with > only 4-8 MB of RAM don't get into trouble ;-) > > Where 4 MB isn't sufficient anymore with a GENERIC kernel. > You need at least 6 MB or so to boot, then compile a custom > kernel and then, if you are lucky, can perhaps run with 4 MB. FWIW: 3.3R ran (crawled?) in 4Mb. I tried it 2 months ago on a 386SX40 with 4Mb. Compiling a GENERIC kernel was 5 hours or so ;-) That is when I gave up on my idea to 'make buildworld'. But still impressive, it was stable. Wilko -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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